[54] leaves : 22 cm (4to)

Title from caption on leaf a1 recto

Imprint from colophon on leaf (g4 recto): Impressum Venetiis per Georgium de Arrivabenis anno Domini .M.cccclxxxxvi. die ultimo mensis Augusti

On the text, to be attributed to Albertus de Orlamunde rather than Albertus Magnus, see Thomas Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum medii aevi, 4 vols (Rome, 1970-93), I (1970), p. 31, and Bernhard Geyer, Die Albert dem Grossen zugeschriebene Summa naturalium (Philosophia Pauperum). Texte und Untersuchungen, BGPTM 35 (Munster, 1938), pp. 42-47, 60*-62*

The text printed here is an excerpt from recension B: see Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Signatures: a-f⁸ g⁶ (g6=blank)

Chancery quarto; a3 recto: 37 lines plus headline, 157 (164) x 108 mm; type: 84R; initial spaces with and without guide letters, woodcuts

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.61 with leaves c4, c5 bound in after e4. Rubricated in red, with occasional blue. Leaf dimensions: 206 x 147 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.61 with bookplate of the BPL Charlotte Harris Fund. Dealers' codes, etc., at front and back. Shelf number[?] in pencil on lower pastedown (N:13 pl.12). Early/contemporary marginalia throughout. Purchased in December, 1936.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.61 bound in early/contemporary leather over printed-waste pasteboards, spine repaired.

Title page, A1 recto -- Table of contents, A1 verso -- Johannes Trithemius. De proprietate monachorum, A2 recto-C5 verso -- Rutgerus Sicamber de Venray. "Carmen Rutgeri Sycambri in libru[m] Reuerendi d[omi]ni Joha[n]nis tritemij abbatis de proprietate monachorum", 9 elegiac distichs, C5 verso-C6 recto -- Theodoricus Gresemundus, the Younger. "In eundem libru[m] Carmen elegiacu[m] Theoderici gresemundi iunioris, 4 elegiac distichs, C6 recto -- colophon, C6 recto.

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